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You trained your heart out! Now it’s time for Recovery.   Many people make the mistake of forgetting recovery as something that they don’t have time for. They think of long massages they can’t afford, painful ice baths, or electrical stimulation and other impractical recovery aids.    In reality, the most effective way to accelerate recovery and reduce soreness is with nutrition. By using a few key supplement tactics, you can target multiple systems in the body when training hard.    #1: Protein Synthesis & Repair Tissue   #2: Restore Energy and Vitality.   #3: Reduce Soreness after Training  ...

  This day in age, everyone who trains seems to think they are a exercise nutrition guru. This makes it hard to distinguish good advice from broscience.   The only way to go through all the nonsense is to look at the actual science. Here are the primary 10 training nutrition mistakes you need to avoid.   #1: Training On An Empty Stomach. A lot of people incorrectly recommend doing cardio on an empty stomach to increase fat burning. Research doesn’t support this practice.   One study found that when trainees ate breakfast and then did moderate-intensity exercise, fat burning and energy...

Leg day, like Marmite – you either love it, or you hate it. It involves some of the more complex movements in the gym, but there are many different exercises you can perform and in plenty of different ways to enhance and grow your legs; one of the biggest and most difficult muscle groups to work on. People often underestimate how many muscles actually need to be trained in order to achieve a desirable, balanced physique, and work on the assumption that just training the quads will assist their goals of packing on the mass (if leg day isn’t skipped altogether...) The...

The pull-up is a fantastic bodyweight exercise which works your lats, as well as your biceps. Whilst it may seem like a straightforward movement, the fact that you have to use ‘at least’ your bodyweight can be challenging for some. If you cannot perform a pull-up, or a set of pull-ups, then fear not. This article will take you through step by step, how to work towards achieving your goal. #1: Hang in There…Literally A large amount of the difficulty of pull-ups comes from being able to keep your body handing from the bar throughout the entire movement. This requires...